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pink fish

By: Kate Davies Designs June 27, 2016June 27, 2016

Buachaille, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, Politics, ScotlandAlaska, Cordova Gansey Project, Dorothy Widmann, Dotty Widmann, fishing, knitting, mittens, pink fish mittens, referendum, salmon, The Net Loft97 Comments

Last year, energetic and inspiring Dorothy Widmann kindly invited me to attend a wonderful event she’d organised in her home town of Cordova, Alaska. Like Scotland, Alaska is one of those places where the activities of fishing and knitting are interestingly intertwined, and Dotty’s Cordova Gansey Project provided occasion for exploring those important connections. The…

circular needle storage

By: Kate Davies Designs January 5, 2014January 5, 2014

knitting2014, circular needles, fishing, knitting, organisation, storage, storage solutions61 Comments

Hello everyone, and happy new year! The title of this post is probably not one to start your heart a’ racing . . . and happily its not often I get evangelical about, um, “storage solutions”, but I am so very pleased with my new super-organised circular needles I thought I’d show you what I’ve…

The Sixareen Kep

Hello from Shetland, everybody! Wool Week is in full swing, and it has got off to a great start. I thought you’d like to see the pattern we produced yesterday at the Shetland Museum — named and photographed by the workshop participants, and modeled here by the lovely Tania — the Sixareen Kep. In the…

fishy

By: Kate Davies Designs February 13, 2011

knitting, ScotlandEast Neuk, Fife, fishing, knitting, Scotland, Scottish Fisheries Museum30 Comments

We spent yesterday over in the East Neuk of Fife. The weather was coming-and-going, but we timed things right, and were lucky enough to enjoy a lovely sunny walk by the north side of the Firth. Spring is definitely on its way! When things clouded over, we popped into the Scottish Fisheries Museum, which, despite…

Caller Herrin’

When I began thinking about this design, I was reading about the intertwined histories of fishing and knitting, and Tom and I were coincidentally (and very happily) going through a kipper-eating phase (Fortune’s are my favourite). I wanted to make a hat that was an homage to the herring – the humble-yet-once-highly-lucrative fish whose annual…